Redcliffe Press Publications
The Bridport Prize 2008
This anthology offers readers a taste of the best of new writing: the winners of the Bridport Prize 2008 - one of the toughest, and richest, open writing competitions in the English language. The 26 finest short stories and poems have been chosen from thousands of entries.
ISBN: 978-1-906593-18-6
160pp
paperback
£12
Earth Memories
LLEWELYN POWYS with an introduction by Philip Larkin
This collection contains many of Powys´ finest country essays.
198mm x 129mm 144pp
ISBN 0 905459 43 1 hardback £6.95
Joseph Cottle and the Romantics: The Life of a Bristol Publisher
Basil Cottle
Joseph Cottle of Bristol is best known as the publisher of Lyrical
Ballads in 1798. Publisher, editor and author, he was, effectively, the first to publish the work of Wordsworth and Coleridge, Southey and Charles Lamb. He produced an edition of Thomas Chatterton’s poems and wrote (rather second-rate) verse epics of his own. His controversial Recollections of Coleridge were notorious for publicizing the poet’s opium addiction. His life and correspondence included contact with notables of the period, both inside and outside the literary world: Wesley, Hannah More, the ‘milk-maid poet’ Ann Yearsley, Humphry Davy, de Quincey, Byron, Mary Russell Mitford and many others.
This biography sheds light both on nineteenth-century Bristol and the literary world of the time, and on the emerging Romantic Movement. It offers fascinating insights into author-publisher relationships and aspects of the relationship between literature and economics, geography,
theology, biography, private life, personal prejudices and other elements in the contemporary culture. With its rich sense of locales and relationships and their relevance to writers, Joseph Cottle and the Romantics is of interest not only to scholars of Romantic literature, but also to social historians and those interested in the history of Bristol.
Basil Cottle was not related to his namesake. This biography, combining literary-historical and local interest, epitomises his special skills. A Reader in the Department of English at Bristol University, he wrote well-respected books on the history of language and literature, and was an expert on Bristol and its history. He was also noted for the vigour, wit and clarity of his style, as evidenced here in a book as readable and accessible as it is informative.
234 x 156mm
approx 356pp, with black and white photographs
Paperback
ISBN 13: 978-1-904537-80-9
£35
PUBLISHED MARCH 2008
Scenes from a Somerset Childhood
LLEWELYN POWYS
A unique collection of impressions of life in and around Montacute at the turn of the nineteenth century. Lyrical descriptions of people and places remembered from childhood are complemented by a superb selection of period photographs of the village and surrounding area in which writer Llewelyn Powys grew up.
240mm x 175mm 72pp black & white photographs
ISBN 0 948265 55 8 softback £3.75
The Vision and Death of Aubrey Beardsley
DEREK STANFORD
In this unique dramatic monologue, poet Derek Stanford brings the world´s most notorious black-and-white artist back to life. In a story closely based on biographical fact, the author traces Beardsley´s obsessions with art, sex and later Catholicism.
240mm x 178mm 64pp illustrated with Beardsley drawings
ISBN 0 905459 85 7 softback £4.95
Writers in Sussex
BERNARD SMITH
No English county has a richer literary heritage than Sussex. This celebration of over 40 writers includes Conan Doyle, Kipling, AA Milne, Lord Tennyson and Virginia Woolf.
242mm x 182mm 120pp black & white photographs
ISBN 0905459 97 0 softback £4.95
The Muse Colony: Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and Friends - Dymock 1914
KEITH CLARK
Just before the outbreak of war in 1914, the small Gloucestershire village of Dymock became the focal point for some of the finest young poets of their generation. It was a short-lived rural idyll, broken by the war in which Thomas and Brooke lost their lives, but nevertheless an important episode in the history of English literature.
Keith Clark explores the reasons for this flight to the country, and the poetry which was inspired by life in Dymock. The book´s themes are illuminated by a generous selection of the poets´ work, some of which is here brought back into print for the first time for many years.
240mm x 170mm 128pp black & white illustrations
ISBN 1 872971 30 X softback £7.50